How do School Children Learn Cyberbullying Perpetration?

With the advancements of the information and communication technologies, school children have started to use the information and communication technologies for cyberbullying purposes. Research has suggested some implications for how young people may learn cyberbullying perpetration. However, no research appears to have investigated how school children learn how to cyberbully others online. To fill this gap, this current review study investigated the relevant research regarding the possible resources of cyberbullying perpetration among school children. A total of 14 research studies published between 2006 and 2016 were reviewed based on several selection criteria. This review was based on Social-Ecological Framework and Affordances Theory as theoretical backgrounds. The findings of the review showed that relations at home and relations at school and affordances of information and communication technologies were the three main resources that school children learn cyberbullying perpetration. Therefore, researchers, psychological counselors and other mental health professionals aiming to prevent and intervene in cyberbullying, should have an inclusive approach by considering the relations at home, the relations at school and the affordances of information and communication technologies